The Ultra-Brick Awards. Round 3!

[Markozeta]

With the Brick Awards Run-Off, 392 was declared the highly contested Golden Brick, and 63 strips were left with no votes whatsoever, after two entire tournaments. After a third and fourth tournament, 6 strips are presented that have never had a vote cast for them. We're here at the bottom of the bottom of the barrel to find the most ignored bricks. They cry out - "Love me, please!". I give you the Ultra-Brick Awards.

We're continuing the single vote rounds. Each round consists of a single vote. This round is still a vote for the most-favorite! Please bold your votes, like this. The winner of that vote is declared a Fools-Golden Brick - no further voting needed. Any bricks simply move onto the next round. Until we get down to less than 4 bricks. In the very likely event that this ends with no bricks, the strip(s) with the fewest votes will be declared Super-Bricks, and in the event of multiple super-bricks, a final vote of least-favorite will determine the Ultra-Brick. So without further ado, I present to you the Ultra-Brick Awards:

This is Round 3 and in this round there are 6 bricks remaining. This round will consist of a single vote! The lowest strip remaining is 528 and the highest strip remaining is 902.

902 - Mr. Sandman, Give Me a Scream
792 - Animal Instincts
528 - The Ghost Screamer
579 - What They Need is a Writ of Habeas Corpus
586 - No Encounter is an Island Unto Itself
749 - Savings and Trust

Voting Closes at 10:00 am PDT, 11/22/2016

[Sir_Norbert]

Ah, the proverbial bottom of the barrel :P It's easy to see why these strips ended up here -- they're not bad as such, but they are transitions in between more interesting / tense / awesome strips. There's very little in any of them to vote for. Still, #528 has Niu in it, and there are not enough strips in the corpus that do.

[littlebum2002]

Yeah, none of these are fantastic. 749

[aurilee]

Not a lot here...

I guess I'll go with Belkar's 'nads.

#902

[Jaxzan Proditor]

I guess I'll vote for #528.

[dmc91356]

I'll go with 902 here.

[ChillerInstinct]

I guess I'll go for #579. It's by no means a great strip on its own merits but I'm a little surprised to see it make it all the way here.

[Darth Paul]

I woke up today with a migraine, so I know just how Haley felt. On the strength of that alone, I'll go with 749. Also, I love the wordplay between her and Elan, and V's calculations.

[nogall]

749, for reasons.

[Laurana]

I agree about barrels, and about voting for 749

[137beth]

None are great, but I'm gonna go with 586.

[Gift Jeraff]

These are some low energy strips.

#528

[Jormengand]

792 for the caster battle, including the amusing SR line.

[AvatarVecna]

749 for what all it's setting up. But yeah, none of these are great or terrible, just...transitions.

[Markozeta]

One more day! Get your votes in!

[Sylian]

579 gets my vote.

[declinator]

Torn between the verbosity of 579 and the caster battle of 792. Ah, whatever: Blackwing for the win! 792

[Markozeta]

And we have a single Super-Brick.

Or at least until I cast my vote. Who am I kidding? I can't vote against generic soldier. While 749 may steal the Fool's Golden Brick for Round 3, the Ultra-Brick is 586 - No Encounter is an Island Unto Itself!

Comic Number	Votes Received	Vote Percentage
902	2	13%
792	2	13%
528	3	19%
579	2	13%
586	1	6%
749	6	38%

[aurilee]

Well...it's all over now.

586 is unremarkable and fragmented enough that it is certainly suited to being a brick. And I think a lack of favourite characters and memorable lines is the final nail in its ultra-brick coffin.

So what exactly are we all supposed to vote for next?

[Markozeta]

Well, I did have it saved just in case we went into another round... I could pull out Intermission 3 tomorrow if anybody is interested.

[littlebum2002]

So that's it? It's over? #586 is officially the least-loved strip in the entire comic?

[aurilee]

So that's it? It's over? #586 is officially the least-loved strip in the entire comic?

Seems like it.

And I'd be in favour of Intermission #3.

Then maybe even an Intermission Final where we vote on the best of the best intermission strips?

Just so that there's a clear ranking of everything. ^_^

[Markozeta]

There really isn't a contest. Intermission 3 is simply the best. But I can pull that together.

How about here

[Jaxzan Proditor]

It's interesting how this turned out. 586 isn't terribly poor in quality or even necessarily in excitement, but apparently it was just bland enough to make it this far.

[Markozeta]

It had a double transition though. I don't think that's been done in any other strips. We went from one battle, through 8 panels, and into a second battle. I dunno if it's just Elan's laws of using backstory to explain things later taking effect, but I think that would have been done better as a simple recap then making the strip to explain it and transition. BUT, we had to get Elan and Therkla off the island for the tragic scene of Therkla's death.